Terraform Cloud Platform

It is HashiCorp’s fully-managed SaaS control-plane for their Infrastructure-as-Code tools. Instead of running Terraform Enterprise, Vault, Consul, Packer, Boundary, etc. yourself, HCP hosts the server components and you only keep the lightweight agents/clients in your own infrastructure.

Features:

• Fully-managed Terraform Enterprise – no runners, patching or scaling chores

• VCS-native workflow – PR → plan → cost/policy → apply

• Guardrails built-in – Sentinel / OPA enforced every run

• Remote state – encrypted, versioned, auto-backed-up

• Private connectivity – VPC peering, PSC, TGW; no 0.0.0.0/0

• Drift detection – scheduled scans, diff dashboard

• RBAC + SSO + 2FA + audit logs – team & project granularity

• Variable sets & hierarchy – account → project → workspace overrides

• Run-tasks – plug Prisma, Checkov, Snyk, Infracost into plan phase

• Provider cache & registry proxy – faster, air-gapped runs

• Concurrent runs, cost-based queuing – pay-per-use, no idle pools

• Native HCP stack – Vault, Consul, Boundary, Waypoint tokens ready

• Consumption pricing – billed per resource-hour / run-minute, zero upfront infra

Structure

Workspaces are nothing but Terraform files stored together in order to provision the infrastructure.

If we want to automate the Terraform tasks and provision it in a cloud environment you we use this workfow.

Check and test it out: Link.

For more indepth analysis, you can watch this video:

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Arigato!